Imagination Quotes

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To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. — Lauren Bacall
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. — Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But… — David Bailey
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James A. Baldwin
I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means. — J. G. Ballard
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic. — J. G. Ballard
I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination. — Eric Bana
For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create… — John Banville
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. — Edward Abbey
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. — John Adams
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I… — John Adams
Inspiration comes of working every day. — Charles Baudelaire
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover… — L. Frank Baum
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and… — Joseph Addison
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. — Henry Ward Beecher

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